What's a few billion among friends? Was it not already budgeted as part of operating costs?

cultcreature

Forward planning? You must be joking. The taxpayer hit again no doubt.

TJMcClean

The safety controls put in place for all chemicals on any manufacturing site is heavily regulated. Surely such radioactive waste must have been inspected by agencies. What is really going on with that industry's safety program?

cultcreature

Undercover cops use dead children's identities

I agree that this was probably unnecessary – but insensitive? Why would the parents be involved at all? They wouldn't know and therefore would not be distressed. Only if someone had been digging might this come to light. The parents of a dead child would know anyone with the same name is not their child.

Jampit

Very distasteful, and indeed upsetting for the families involved. There is no reason why identities couldn't have been created from scratch. No excuse, other than stupidity and insensitivity. That said, errors in judgment can happen, and the past cannot be undone. I'm sure it wasn't done maliciously, and let's hope a lesson is learned